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I Letter: .Patent No. 73,817, dated Januaryi28, 1868.

a IMPROVEMENT IN BOOKS AND EYES.

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TO LL TQ'WEDM THESEPRESENTS SHALL COME:

Bc it known that I, WILLIAM Law, of Birmingham, in the county of4 llarwick,` England, accountant clerk,

have inventeda new or improved Dress-Fastminu,n which said fastening is also applicable to the fastening of' D belts and hands, and to other like purposes g and that the' following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes it from al1 other thingsrbefore known, and of the usual manner of making, modifying, andusing the same; `v that is to say- This invention relates to animpro'vement in the manufacture of hooks and eyes, and it consists, rst, of a hook whose sides are made of elastic wire, bent `into ashape resemblinga heart, the two Aends of said hookbeing provided with heads, in combination with an eye of similar shape,'having an oval:- tongue, whereby the elastic sides of the hook are adapted to spring over `said tongue, and the heads fit into the contracted space. between the tongue and each sido ofthe eye; second, of a hook and eye, the latter constructed of a bar, bent at right angles to the plane, and divided at its ends for engaging with the bent sides of the tongue of the hook, which i tongue iits in theangular portion of the eye, the elastic sides of the latter springing open to admit of the attach# tuent, and closing upon the narrow part of the tongue, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

Similar letters Aof reference indicate corresponding parts.

Description of Drawz'ngs..

.Figure 1 represents a Eat and edge vier? of my'improved eye, and Figure 2 a dat and edge viewof my improved hook, the ends of which terminate vwith large heads, as at a b the sides, in connection withthese heads, form springs, to expand when being attached to the eye, and contract to the-position as here shown, after the connection or attachment is made, to ciect which .I applythe heads of the hook in the open space of the eye, indicated by the small dotted circles marked c andd, fig; A1, and byslightly pulling thel hook and eye in contrary directions, the sides e andf of the hook will expand, allowing the heads a and b to pass on right and" left of the tongue g, until the angular parts, with the heads a and b, are stayed in the. contraction of the eye marked h and z, when the fastening will bevconiplete, and `in this form they are represented in fiat and edge views atFiguz-e 3. Itis not essential that the ceutreiloop or tongue, in the'middle of the hook, marked k k, in liga. or 3, should be of the shape shown, as 'it may be so formed as to couomize this wire, Without interfering in any Way with the utilityof the fastener; and-this I have exhibited in. a. modification at Figure 4, in which, instead of allowing the ends to terminate with heads, `as atfg. 2,' I have formed them intoaI bar, bent at right angles to the plane, and divided in the middle as at m n, for engaging with Athe tongue l of the eye, Figure -5, and which eye is slightly modified in its`form to that of'fig. 1, tothe extent of bending the wire outward, to form loops for attachment, instead of inwards, as there-exhibited. i

This form of hook and eye, made according to myflmproiements, is exhibited, attached or connected -in a hat and edge view at Figure 6, in which it will bessen that the neck ofthe tongue Z lis in the angular part of the hook marked o, andin formingthe-attachment tiir.: sides of thehooli' marked p and q, spring open, to allow the har to pass-over the enlarged part oi"- the tongue', to collapse again by the contracting force of the sides 7J l Mld Q3 t0 tuums its normal lcondition, which is in close contact', andthis mode of attachment I have represented l at li.,-Fig'ure`7, 'in-connection withu'brace-buckle, Vthe lower partof which, marked a and t, with the tongue u, muy be of wire plnuisheddown into this form, or otherwise; and the same form of hook, as at R, in this gure, i have exhibited at V, Figure 8, in connection .with a belt-clasp,ithe`tongue in which`it engages being marked w, and in this ease cut .out of sheet metal, to form the centreot' u. clasp, which may be-ornamented,or othsrvrrise, In the front as desired, or the tongue partrmaybe made ofv wire, as at Eg. 5, with the loops for attachment altered into the form as at au, forthe convenience of receiving a belt; and Figure 9 represents s little fastener,

`Arrith n'ho'ok, y, made accdrding to :ny-improvements, as exhibited ut R and V, 'gs. 71nd. fpsrtly coveredcvet by the part to `erhielt it is engagodgby the tongue e.

"` This modification is arranged for fastening gal-ters and such 'like small bandsbut it will be evident that by decreasing its size, and otherwise fashioning the loops, it woulclvbe suitable for fastening the backs of dresses, gloves, und other like article iipreferrod; and it will be further seen that if the hook were made as at iig. 2, riz, the ends of the Wirey terminating with heads lat a and the same mode would be as applicable in thi! case, as also at'gs. 'i' and 8, es,the bar here shown, as described separately :it fig. 4, which saidEgux-e, as also figs. I, 2, and 6, are drawn to a somewhat lai-ger scale or size than wonldbc usually required for the purp'oses hereinbeore stated, in order that its principle or mode of attachment should be clearly defined.

At Figure-10 I have represented a fastening well adapted for a dress-snspender, the pant a', or what maY be termed the eye ofthe fastening, being attached tothe upper part of the skirtcf a. dress by the eyesbd, and

'the hook part, c', attached 1n any positionA at the lower part of theiskirt of a dress, or, if desired, one, two, or more rows of these hooks may bensed, so that the dress may be looped up to any degvee'desired, and when so connected o1'v looped together, 'would pilesent the appearance here' shown.

Fignre lids -a detached fiont and edge view ofthe eye part a', and y Figure 1 2 represents a front and edge view sofa vnl odificat'ion'of this -part -of the fastening, with-the holes -or means of attachment representedeyeleted, for the purpose of preventingthe ctting of the lthread or materiat `-used in theattachment of the same to the'dress.

Having now given a full descriptionof my invention, nnd` g he`xianner of giving effect tothe same, wish it undestood that what I claim as of my invention, is-

The hook and eye, the latter constructed of a bar lient at right angles to the plane, and divided 1n.. the middle et m n, forv engaging with thefbet sides of the tongue Lx-which' itsin the angular part, 05.0? the eye, the sidesp and q of the latterspringing opento admit of' the atta'chmenand closing npon'the narrow part of the tongue l, as herein `shown and described.'

i ]I n "witness whereof,.I, the said WILLIAMLAW, have hereunto set my hand andv seal, this twentieth day of Augnst, inthe year -of eur'Lord one thousand'eight hndred and sixty-six.

' ,A y WILLIAM LAW. [12. S.], Witnesses:

JAMES S. Comunes, WILLIAM Lonen. 

